Her Last Wish

FBI Agent Rachel Gift, age 33, has a husband Pete and daughter Paige. She is running an obstacle course when she felt intense pain in her head. A scan reveals a malignant tumor and she's told by the doctors that she only has a year to live. So she tells her husband, right? And she tells her partner so he will not be put in danger, right? Ohhhh, noooo. I can't equate to this but it made no sense whatsoever.<br /><br />Rachel and her partner are assigned to a double homicide where 2 women have been stabbed in the stomach. <br /><br />There were way too many grammatical errors, misspellings, sentences not ending, etc. Many appeared to be typos. I even noticed the daughter's age changed. Putting out a book in this condition would be enough to make a story go south real fast and that's what happened. I kept seeing these errors and couldn't concentrate on the book. I'm not a technological person but how hard could it be to fix this? I'm far from perfect with my writing skills but then I'm not a publishing author either. Proofreading and editing is a must! Ok, I'm finished ranting.<br /><br />Caution: some grisly scenes in the book. I've read several of the author's books before and I don't remember the editing problem in them.<br /><br /> I won this Kindle copy in a Goodreads giveaway.

Merpppp. ??<br /><br />I only got 20% thru and was over it. Let’s throw every melodramatic trope into the first 45 pages and see what sticks. <br /><br />Also, can we please stop with women calling each other bitches within the first 5 minutes of a scene?! <br /><br />And I ditto what all the other readers said - there’s a lot of typos and editing challenges that were distracting ?

<strong>Crime thriller</strong><br /><br />This was a great start to a new series by Blake Pierce! <br />The extra drama going on in agent Gift’s life adds something extra to emotional connection with the heroine. The serial killer she is after is nothing out of the ordinary as far as serial killer’s go, but she has a connection to a convicted killer that makes things take a dark turn. <br />I look forward to the next in the series.

3/10 rounded up for the effort at churning out so many look alike mystery novels. <br />This is a blatant example of quantity over quality. I don't know if Blake Pierce intends to give James Patterson a run for his money in terms of number of books published in a short time, but either way the results for both are the same, none of their novels stand out anymore. Worse, this book also suffers from various typos and other linguistic errors as others have pointed out.

I liked the character; but, found the internal dabate about reveally the brain tunour to her hasband and her partner tedious. At times I considered that I wouldn't finish the book. I think this carries on for future books in the series. The plat and pacing is good otherwise; but, I found the brain tumour story line too distracting. This is the first of Blake Pierce's series where I have little interest in reading the rest of the series.

<br />FBI Agent Rachel Gift, 33, a rising star in the Behavioral Crimes Unit, is leading the good life. She has a great job, a seven-year old daughter she loves intensely, a fabulous husband, and the sky’s the limit for her. Then one day during physical training, she pops a headache and the next thing she knows, she’s eating dirt. Her boss packs her off to the doctor, who determines she has a brain tumor. Shortly after that she gets handed a case of a serial killer targeting women seeking fertility treatments. The case hits close to home, as she and her husband are considering having another child. The case becomes her island of sanity in the maelstrom that is her life.<br /><br />I had a like/hate relationship with this book. The case itself is fascinating – why are otherwise healthy, young-ish women being violently dispatched? What’s the link between the victims? What is the killer trying to say? And Rachel is an interesting character. She’s complex, multi-layered, driven, and flawless at her job. The writing is fine, the plot clips along at a good pace, and the story held my interest all the way through.<br /><br />What I didn’t like – I found her name annoying (like what, she’s supposed to be a “gift” to law enforcement? She has “gifts”?). I’m also irritated with the way she bullies her way into getting information from the doctors involved with the various clinics and how easily they roll over for her. “You know without this information, a woman will likely die tonight?” “Oh, ok, I’ll take your word without even calling my attorney, or verifying that you’re a real agent. Here’s the keys to the store, run wild through all my records. Also, let me give you the pin to my bank account, the combination to my gym locker, and all my computer passwords.” Do these people not know about HIIPA?<br /><br />And the worst thing of all is that she chooses not to tell anyone about the ticking time bomb in her head. It’s bad enough that she puts her partner at risk, but I pretty much wanted to sock her for not telling the man she loves sooooo much. Or her child, who has to know something is wrong.<br /><br />I don’t think I’ll read more in this series. I do see the author is a prolific writer and has least a dozen other series. I’ll probably check out a few of them to see if I like the characters better.<br />

This was a book that was marked as free in Apple Books. I had never really read many books via my phone, but I decided to give it a shot. Especially since I am such a true crime addict. <br /><br />The book was riveting. I was immediately drawn into the characters and what would happen. I think the book does a great job in story telling. However, when it comes to dialogue and plot advancements, it felt cliche. There were a few pieces of conversation that were a bit one sided and cringe. <br /><br />However, the book did a great job on developing the main character. The plot was simple and cut to the chase. Basic plot twist at the end. <br /><br />I’m giving this book 2 stars for quality. Is this book a great thriller and mystery? Yes. But does this book offer anything new to the table? No. <br /><br />It’s simple yet cliche and stereotypical. I enjoyed it, because I like easy and cheesy readings. But as far as concepts, the book was basic. Would love to read more from this author.

3.5 ⭐️<br /><br />Rachel Gift is a highly skilled FBI agent who visits a doctor and receives a terrible diagnosis, one so devastating she can't really find a way to bring it up with her family. On top of that, someone is killing women who are tied to fertility clinics. <br /><br />This was a decent crime novel. Unfortunately, the number of errors and conflicts in the story almost made me give it a 3 but the plot leads me to a 3.5 star rating. I looked up the author after I finished this and he has written an impressive amount of books and built up quite a few series. So I will continue with this series and see how I like it and we’ll see if I’ll proceed with his other series. <br /><br />The ending, I feel like it should have been more spaced out since I felt like Rachel got the murderer by just guessing who it was. But overall the book was pretty okay.

So very good. Could not put it down!

Intense, riveting storyline kept me glued to the page. We are given a close look inside the killer’s mind but don’t know who she is until the end of the book. The stakes keep getting higher as the victims increase and Rachel, the protagonist, faces a difficult personal challenge on top of it. She chooses to keep it to herself so the secrets and lies build throughout the entire book. It was an edge-of-your-seat read practically from start to finish.<br /><br />I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.